Growing up in South Carolina, Reggie Sanders remembers seeing Yankee teams do things like they did last night.

He remembers them creating magic out of losses. But when he was a kid, they didn’t put him into shock.

After Tino Martinez’ two-out, two-run, game-tying homer in the ninth and Derek Jeter’s game-winner that sailed over Sanders’ head and into the right-field porch in 10th, the question with the series tied at two: Can the Diamondbacks recover?

“It’s a very tough loss, of course,” Sanders, 33, said. “We are a resilient team, very strong mentally, very strong physically. I believe we will be fine.”

It helps the Diamondbacks that, after Miguel Batista tonight, they will return home with Randy Johnson and Curt Schilling scheduled to pitch Game 6 and 7.

But the “What ifs?” that will last forever if Arizona loses this series can’t begin yet.

The D’backs must look at tonight and forget about yesterday. But last night, they still were being asked about what just happened.

“Growing up as a kid, I remember the Yankees doing that,” Sanders said.

Sanders watched the ball leave the park. He didn’t question manager Bob Brenly’s decision to put in Byung-Hyun Kim in the eighth for Schilling.

“Disappointing,” Sanders said. “I just ran out of room and it took the breath out of me. They came back in a dramatic way. That’s baseball.”

Damian Miller saw the pitch that Kim threw to Derek Jeter.

“He threw a ball right down the middle,” Miller said. “It was as simple as that.”

Coming back, though, won’t be easy.

“It seemed kind of surreal at first,” Miller said of Martinez’ homer. “It was like it didn’t really happen. I couldn’t believe it happened.”